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With two clients, each with NFSv3 mounts of the same directory, the sequence:
client1 client2
ls -l afile
echo hello there > afile
echo HELLO > afile
cat afile
will show
HELLO
there
because the O_TRUNC requested in the final 'echo' doesn't take effect.
This is because the "Negative dentry, just create a file" section in
lookup_open() assumes that the file *does* get created since the dentry
was negative, so it sets FMODE_CREATED, and this causes do_open() to
clear O_TRUNC and so the file doesn't get truncated.
Even mounting with -o lookupcache=none does not help as
nfs_neg_need_reval() always returns false if LOOKUP_CREATE is set.
This patch fixes the problem by providing an atomic_open inode operation
for NFSv3 (and v2). The code is largely the code from the branch in
lookup_open() when atomic_open is not provided. The significant change
is that the O_TRUNC flag is passed a new nfs_do_create() which add
'trunc' handling to nfs_create().
With this change we also optimise away an unnecessary LOOKUP before the
file is created.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.